Reading & Learning Disabilities

 

 

The term “learning disabilities”, sometimes referred to as specific learning disabilities, is an umbrella term that covers a range of neurologically based disorders in learning and various degrees of severity of such disorders.

Broadly speaking, these disorders involve difficulty in one or more, but not uniformly in all, basic psychological processes: (1) input (auditory and visual perception), (2) integration (sequencing, abstraction, and organization), (3) memory (working, short term, and long term memory), (4) output (expressive language), and (5) motor (fine and gross motor). (LDA)

 

Activities:

• Explore the Signs of Dyslexia
• Do the Dysgraphia Spinner activity
• Complete your Student Profile
• Review pages 5-9 of the McRel Student Learning That Works document
• On your Standards Worksheet, under Instructional Design, list some strategies and tools that will provide cognitive processing support.

 

 

Exploration

• Signs of Dyslexia
• Indicators of a Learning Disability
• Dyslexia Myths & Facts
• Dysgraphia Spinner
• Reading Comprehension Tutorial
• Cognitive Supports Tutorial

 

 

Files

• McRel - Student Learning That Works

 

 

Resources

• Reading & Study digital Tools v.1
• Reading & Study digital Tools v.2
• Dyslexia in the Classroom Handbook

 

 

Demonstrations

• Word 365
• Microsoft Edge
• Chrome Extensions
• ReWordify
• Rationale
• Smarter Charts
• Microsoft SmartArt
• Newsela

 

 

 

 

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